Barbara Liskov @QCon London 2013

In my book, one the most famous (if not *the* most famous) woman in Software Engineering: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/programming-abstraction-liskov

Software Design in the 21st Century

Martin Fowler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kotnF6hfd8

Ted Neward@1DevDay Detroit '012

Courtesy of InfoQ: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Iconoclasm

Haven't seen Ted in a talk for a while now, but it's a very good, non-technical talk, well worth-while.

Working Remotely

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/02/why-we-still-believe-in-working-remotely/

The Dark Side of "Craftsmanship"

http://blogs.tedneward.com/2013/01/24/On+The+Dark+Side+Of+Craftsmanship.aspx

Dan North on Uncertainty

Granted, it's a broad topic, but Dan in my book, still is one of the most entertaining speakers: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Embracing-Uncertainty

John Cleese on Creativiy

Even though it seems to have been recorded quite a while back, a brilliant talk by John Cleese (Monty Python) on creativity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShmtsLhkQg&feature=player_embedded

crazybob at StrangeLoop

Nice talk by Bob Lee where he basically explains what's going on at Square, the company at which he's CTO at the moment: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Square

Hierarchial Databases

In case you're dealing with a natural hierarchical model and are tired of bending existing solutions to simulate hierarchies, check out ModeShape. It's lightweight and LGPL licensed.

Google Data Center

via street view . Pretty cool !

Liberalism / Conservatism in Software Engineering

A brilliant essay by Steve Yegge: https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/KaSKeg4vQtz

Java Generics and Extreme Sports

If you've every used generics in Java and thought that
public abstract class Enum<E extends Enum<E>> implements Comparable<E>, Serializable sends your neural synapses into an infinite loop, check this example out, courtesy of Spring Data: http://blog.springsource.org/2012/08/03/the-most-amazing-java-type-declaration-ever/

GitHub investment or merger ?

It seems that GitHub got a 100 mil investment from Andreessen Horowitz, which seems pretty substantial. Wonder if there are any strings attached to this...

How LinkedIn makes 20 times more money than Facebook, per user

Wouldn't have thought it, really: http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2012/06/27/how-linkedin-strategy/

MVC on the Web

Food for thought on implementing MVC when running web-apps.

OS X

Another awesome comic strip: http://xkcd.com/1056

Dan North, latest talk from QCon 2012

From last month's London QCon: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Decisions-Decisions
IMO, Dan's presentations are some of the easiest to follow and entertaining out there.

Responsive Design

An old (2009) QCon presentation from Kent Beck on some basic and obvious design principles. Really good and "easily" watchable.

Sufficient Design

Nice talk from Joshua Kerievsky on what "efficient development" is, from a business and engineering point of view.

Creative Thinking Presentation

Scott Berkun - http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2012/creative-thinking-hacks-video/  (about 1h long, but worth watching)